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• Pitt changed Jolie’s mind about biological kids
NEW YORK - Angelina Jolie, an advocate of adoption, credits partner Brad Pitt with her decision to have biological children. In an interview with W magazine, Jolie says: “One of the life-changing things that he did, one of many, is that I was ...
• Scientists sequence giant panda's genome
... may be able to explain their low birth rate and help them to have more cubs, Wang Jun, a scientist at the Beijing Genomics Institute, was quoted by Xinhua as saying. "By sequencing the giant panda genome we've laid the genetic and biological ...
• 1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel in chemistry
... showed GFP's value "as a luminous genetic tag," while Tsien contributed "to our general understanding of how GFP fluoresces," the academy said in its citation. It said that their work has enabled "scientists to follow several different biological ...
• SRI wins contract to develop drugs to counter bioterrorism
... drugs to counter pathogen threats. The work on behalf of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency is the second program SRI has established with the DoD. In 2007, SRI scientists received $9.5 million to identify approved drugs effective against biological ...
• Microscope shows how embryos grow
... Germany. “It’s like a huge puzzle and we can see the individual pieces. We see everything.” Zebrafish, also known as zebra danio, are popular research subjects because they are cheaper to breed than mice and share a number of similar biological ...